Hints and tips:
...“Janet Yellen and I agree that the World Bank spring meetings in April must result in a binding schedule for reforms,” said Schulze on Monday....
...I remember an etching made by the visionary William Blake that quoted the Old Testament: “I have said to the Worm: Thou art my mother and my sister”....
...The Duchy of Cornwall now passes to his heir Prince William....
...William Dyson runs a nursery specialising in salvias at Great Comp near Sevenoaks in Kent....
...The son of an illustrious family — Sir William Peat, his great-grandfather, was one of the founding partners of what eventually became KPMG — Peat himself became a partner at KPMG in 1985....
...In an old family album, there is photograph of my father and me, standing by a donkey loaded with peat. I must have been six. I was in short trousers....
...At those moments, I hear William Blake: “You throw the sand against the wind, and the wind blows it back again.”...
...They must explain how they arrived at their new 40 per cent rate, in more expansive terms than “I copied the next guy, guv”....
...“I’d like to think we’ve been sensitive in how we’ve hung our art,” says Warleigh-Lack....
...Dark peat and rubble climbed halfway up the windows at the rear of the house, and water roared through its rooms when it rained....
...At Dead Man’s Hill, so named because of the discovery in 1728 of three headless corpses buried in the peat, the wintry light, I find, is fading fast and the wind is up — a biting northerly that has me reaching...
...On the Isle of Islay I hiked to a remote bothy. It was full of other people’s leavings: oatcakes and freshly cut peat in a creel, shiny cutlery and coffee pots....
...And as I read, I already missed Eilean Shona, a storybook island of simple, timeless pleasure and happy endings. Details Tim Moore was a guest of Eilean Shona....
...In recent years, Wm Sinclair has been hit by wet weather, poor peat harvests and pricing pressures....
...When we speak of England, we might think of Elgar or Vaughan Williams, Hardy or Manley Hopkins....
...I cannot help wondering if the end results would be more convincing, ironically, if the architecture tried less hard....
...I liked whisky before I went to Speyside but not in any considered way....
...There are few smells or tastes in this book, and we don’t glean much about the landscape beyond its “indifference”, its peat and its heather. But perhaps this is missing the point....
...“I wanted to progress. In order to do this I had to do an MBA” she says....
...As Prince William and his fiancée stepped out on their first official engagement at the weekend, the hope at Buckingham Palace was that here was a couple that could embody present-day Britain....
...The peat industry needs sunny and dry conditions for a successful harvest as well as for bringing gardeners into stores. “I have never been so weather obsessed since I had this job....
...Andrew Jefford is author of ‘Peat Smoke and Spirit: A Portrait of Islay and its Whiskies’ (Headline)...
...“In the 1840s, [William] Gladstone became president of the board of trade and had 235 separate sugar tariffs to deal with,” Peel told me. “I remember thinking that not much had changed in 170 years.”...
...William, Fresno Ricardo Hausmann: 70 dollars a barrel is a pretty attractive target for ethanol to compete with - 100 dollars is a bonanza....
...In a single race you may have to deal with rocks, mud, heather, peat bogs, grass and even streams....
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